Marking of hat-bodies



L C. WILSON.

- MARKING 0F HAT BODIES. APPLICATION FILED APR. 16. 1918. RENEWED JULY I3. I920.

1,354,864 Patented 0m. 5, 1920,

INVENTOR A TTOR/VEV PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN 0. WILSON, OF PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

MARKING- OF HAT-BODIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Application filed April 16, 1918, Serial No. 228,828. Renewed July 13, 1920. Serial No. 395,993.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN C. WILsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Peekskill, in the county of lVestchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Marking of Hat-Bodies, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of'hat bodies, and its object is to lessen the waste of the materials that enter into the structure of the bodies. The object is attained by the means set forth in the accompanying drawings and this specification, in both of which like letters and numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure l is a representation of a hat body as usually made. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional representation of the invention. Fig. 3 represents a hat body with the invention applied.

In order to make this invention entirely clear itis important to refer to hat bodies as they are made. As at 1, Fig. 1, notches are cut in the edge of the body a to indicate the size of the body, five notches indicating a 7:1- in. hat size. At 2 is a notch to indicate the bodies in a lot that belong to a particular order, and at 8 is the mark of the workman who handles the bodies so marked. These marks are not effaced during the various processes the bodies are put through to complete them. In finishing, rounding the hats, the trimming of the rim must be deep enough to remove all the notches. This involves cutting away as much as a half inch of the body, and the waste therefrom is considerable. IVhile the raw fur may cost dollars a pound, the trimmings therefrom cannot be sold for more than a few cents apound. My invention will prevent all waste except just enough to give uniformity to the hat brim, involving no trimming to remove markings.

Instead of notching the rim of the hat my method is to burn all necessary markings on the face of the edge of the body, as at 4 5 6, Figs. 2 and 3. The burning can be done in a variety of ways, but electrically heated metal figures provides a method most convenient and easy of application, the hat body edge being held in a vise-like grip, and the figures in a movable thrust to be thrust against the body edge. Just a touch of a properly heated figure is suflicient to sear the figure, or whatever the mark required, into the fur. The burning can be done on the side of the body, as at 7, Fig. 3, but preferably, and for the economy claimed, the burning should be on the edge, as most plainly shown in Fig. 2. In either manner there will be a large saving over the present method. Whereas, now in the marking of the bodies, provision has to be allowed for liberal trimming, with this invention raw material may be saved from the start by reducing the length of the bodies, since the only trimming to be provided for will be enough to give uniformity to the hat brim in the finishing. lVhile the additional saving of coloring and other materials used in treating the bodies would be small in a single body, as one result of shortening the bodies, in a large number of bodies the saving wouldbe material and perceptible.

.rIaving described my invention, what I laim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

in the numbering and marking of hat bodies the hat bodies provided with indicia located on the faces of the edges of the bodies in order to reduce to a minimum the 

